Slalom

In Slalom Racing, paddlers have to navigate the kayak or canoe through pairs of poles, called "gates", set up over the challenging rapids, waves, eddies and currents on a 300m stretch of rough water. If the paddler touches one of the poles, or misses a gate altogether, penalty times are added to the time achieved by the competitor on that run. They are single kayak (K) events, for men and women, and canoe events, also for men and women, in single (C1) and double boats (C2). There are also team events.

This discipline made its appearance in the Olympic Games in Munich in 1972 and then had to wait until 1992 to be reinstated to the Olympic programme.

NEWS

The 2019 ECA Junior Canoe Slalom European Cup race series ended with a race in Bratislava and after 12 races of the season that were held in Krakow, Valstagna, Solkan, Flattach, Augsburg and Bratislava, we have the overall race series winners, coming from Italy, Slovenia, Slovakia and New Zealand.

After twelve races at six different venues the 2019 edition of the ECA Junior Canoe Slalom Cup has come to an end. The last two races were held in Bratislava, Slovakia, on a well known course which hosted European and World Championships as well as World Cup races.

Elena Kaliska, Ondrej Tunka, Jure Lenarčič and Monika Škachova are the overall winners of the first edition of the ECA European Open Slalom Cup race series. The first race of the season was held in Markkleeberg, followed by races in Ljubljana - Tacen, Liptovsky Mikulaš, Merano, Prague and Bratislava.